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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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CONFERENCE ON CONDUCT GOVERNANCE AND AN OFFICE OF CAMPUS REGULATIONS, URBANA

(38) The Chancellor at the Urbana-Champaign campus recommends approval of the Urbana-Champaign Senate action relating to the establishment of a Conference on Conduct Governance and an Office of Campus Regulations. T h e Conference will provide an additional source for the development of consistent and comprehensive rules for conduct governance. The Office of Campus Regulations will provide for more orderly administration and promulgation of rules relating to conduct. It is to be noted that the inauguration of these two agencies will not alter or detract from the Board of Trustees' action at its August 12, 1970, meeting concerning the authority of administrative officers to issue rules of conduct governance. I concur. A copy of the report of the Urbana-Champaign Senate action is printed below.

On motion of Mr. Jones, this recommendation was approved.

Urbana-Champaign Senate April 27,1970 1. The Senate approves the establishment of a Conference on Conduct Governance with the following membership, functions, and restraints: Establishment of Conference A. There shall be a Conference on Conduct Governance established by the Urbana-Champaign Senate consisting of seventeen members. Six members shall be faculty selected by the Urbana-Champaign Senate, of whom there shall be at least one from each professorial rank and of whom one shall be designated chairman by the Senate. Seven members shall be students selected by the Undergraduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Association, of whom four shall be undergraduates, two graduate students, and one a student of a professional college. Four members shall be administrative officers chosen by the Chancellor with due regard for appropriate areas of concern. The appointing agencies shall consider the expressed needs of organized racial and ethnic minorities. B. T h e terms of membership shall be two years except that eight members upon initiation of the Conference will be appointed to an initial three-year term so that change and continuity will be possible each year after the second year. Functions of the Conference A. T h e Conference shall review and express to the Chancellor its approval, disapproval, or modification of standards of conduct (hereafter called "rules") initiated by subcommunities of the campus. After the Conference has reviewed a rule, its action will become effective (1) unless contrary action is taken by the Chancellor within 30 days of its receipt of action and (2) after 30 days of receipt of the action by the Office of Campus Regulations. B. T h e Conference may initiate and recommend to the Chancellor adoption of additional rules it deems desirable. These rules will become effective (1) unless contrary action is taken by the Chancellor within 30 days of its receipt of the action and (2) after 30 days of receipt of the action by the Office of Campus Regulations. C. The Conference shall periodically review the system and make general recommedations to the Chancellor and the Senate regarding revision of the system. It may, to this end, request reports from various members of the system. T h e Conference shall render a general report to the Chancellor and the Senate annually. D. The jurisdiction of the Conference shall not extend to (1) rules governing conduct arising within the duties and obligations imposed by the contract of employment and within the scope of the particular duties and responsibilities of the person employed; (2) those rules and regulations which are adopted or imposed in the course of the purchase of goods or services; or (3) rules on purely academic matters, including requirements for degrees and standards of academic performance, except that the Conference shall have jurisdiction over academic irregularities such as cheating, plagiarism, falsi-